The head and shoulders of a young woman with gold-tinted, pale skin looks out over our right shoulder from against a tomato-red background in this vertical painting. The portrait is created with mostly visible, sinuous brushstrokes that make some details indistinct. With her body facing us, the woman nearly fills this composition. She looks in our direction with large, dark eyes under almost flat brows. She has an oval face, a long nose, and her full, slightly downturned coral-red lips are closed. Her chestnut-brown hair falls loosely down her back. Some locks pour over her left shoulder, to…
Gallery mode Full size at the museum

Alice Butt

painter James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 - 1903)

c. 1895

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 51.7 x 38.1 cm (20 3/8 x 15 in.) ; framed: 86.4 x 73 x 8.9 cm (34 x 28 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Curt H. Reisinger
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art

More by James McNeill Whistler

See all

More like this

See all